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Washingidm, January ifj, The House
Foreign Affairs Committee, after hearing the
reading of Secretary Folgcr's letter, ex
planatory of the working of the Hawaiian
treaty, hy n majority vote, authorized Kasson
of Iowa to rciort to the Home in favor of re
taining the treaty, but in a mild form. lilount
and liclmont dissented from tlie majority re
port, liclmont aid the Treasury Dctiartmcnt,
rather than the treaty itself, was on trial, owing
to the admission free Of duty of sugars not con
templated hy the treaty.
A Joint resolution offered in the House hy
Kasson, rcsivccting the Hawaiian treaty, re
quests the President to take steps to bring
aliout a revision of the treaty to the end that
the clause relative to the introduction of Ha
waiian muscovado, brown and unrefined sugars
free of duty, may be changed to permit the
character and grades of such duty-free sugars
to be determined by their percentage of abso
lute fineness or clarification, instead of the
color-test standard, not, however, to impair
the spirit of reciprocity.
The following is the communication from
the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington,
I). C, which was laid ticforc the House
Foreign Affairs Committee January 16th:
TkKASUHV DfTAKTHrHT,
Washingtom, January n. f
Hem. Charlft G. Willitiml, lleuie of Ktprtuntn'
tivti Sir! Your letter of the iStli ultimo wat duly re
ceived, in which you stale that you have leen Instructed
by the Committee on foreign Affairs of the House of
Kcprescntaiives to request my views as to the effect
commercially of the abrogation of the treaty with the
Hawaiian Islands. In reply, I enclose a set of tables
prepared in the liureau of Statistics of thlf Department,
showing in detail the Importation of merchandise into
the United States from the Hawaiian Islands and the
exportation of meschandise from the United States to
theu- islands, also a table showing the quantity; of sugar
and molasses produced in the State of I.ouisiana and
the United Slates. 'the value of our exports to the
Hawaiian lalands fur the fiscal year ending June 30,
lS33, was $3,350,77, and the value of oiir imports tor
that period was $7,646,334. Thes tables give you all
the statistical facts upon the subject that are at my com
mand. Had the sugar imported from those Islands into
this country for the period mentioned l,een subject to
duty, that duly, according to our tariff laws, would
have been $3, 405;, 50a. If, by the term "commercially'
in your letter, you re'er to the pecuniary interest of the
United States as a government, it if plain that it lias
suffered a loss in its revenues to the amount of that
duty, for 1 think it may be reasoned that the consump
tion and Importation of sugar would have been no less
liad the Hawaiian sugar Wen Importable only on pay
ment of a duty. The amount of the importations above
mentioned has been taken up and consumed chiefly by
the people on the Western Slope of the continent, at a
scale of prices, as I am assured, higher than that of a
like quantity or grade of the article on the Kastem
SIope.( It is probable, then, that the demand for con
sumption was one of need, and would have been made
liad a duty been juid and the sale price thereby lieen
enhanced, and that had duty been exacted, as no less
would lave btrn imported, there would have len n cor
responding enhancement of the revenues. If by the
term "vommercially" you refer to the general business
interests of the country, the offer of the treaty is not so
easily shaken off. It is true that the islands do not take
from us amounts of our products as great as that which
we take of theirs, and that we have to pay the balance
against us in money, if that balance went Into the
hands of the resident blinders, the immediate effect
would be to our cost. I am Informed however, that
much of the producing industry of the island is under
the direction and inures to the profit of citizens or resi
dents of the United States. If this be so, it may be
queried whether the gain, or much of it, Irom the sugar
trade, is not, at the very best, diffused among our own
people, and so that the commerce of the two countries
becomes analaguus to that between the States of the
Union. Moreover, it is alleged that the population of the
islands is increasing, and ineir industries arc growing.
That the demand for merchandise such as we produce or
sell, will naturally grow, and that as the effect of the
treaty lias been to keep up amicable relations of all
kinds, the keeping of the treaty olive will tend to secure
to the United btaic that increase of trade, and deter
mine the ultimate commercial effect of the treaty. If
the sense of the w ord " commercial" is, as it takes only
the principal trade flora the islands to the United States
to wit, sngaifand it is in connection with this that there is
the most complaint that has reached this department) it
would be this: she pi ice of sugar is greater on the
western side of the continent than on the eastern, though
the former is much more readily accessible from the is-'-amis,
and naturally receives the bulk of the sugar that
is imported from them and receives it without tka pay
ment of duties, vet, while the price js greaterat the
West than at the hast, the Kastern merchant cannot of
fer his wares to consumers at the West, at as low rates
a his Western risab At first sight, one is apt to say
that the ability to Import free of duty has something to
do with this, for though heat the Hut may Import from
the Islands free of duly, his transportation being around
the Capa or over the Isthmus, or across the continent,
costs him more llian does that of his Western competi
tor, directly over the waters of the Pacific While on
that sugar which he may perhaps import and rcccise at
its low cost, he must pay duty sq that it seems superfi
cial that by as much sir by barely as much is the duty
on sugar, by that much the Western importer has an
advantage over the Kastern. Hut here I must state
what has been lately given to me as a fact, his this;
To a buyer from the United States the price of sugar in
the Islands is made by adding to the value of it there a
sum equal to what would be the duty on it at one of
our ports where sugar is subject to our tariff taxes. If
this is so, the Western shore importer gets no advantage
over the Eastern one by his freedom from duty, The
duty he would havs paid to tbe government he pays in
effect to the seller on the Islands, so that the fact that
the HawaiUn sugar lavs no duty on importation, if this
information be true, gives no advantage to an importer
of it over the Importers of the article from other jlaccs
of product, nor to the consumer in the United btaus.
lt have this Information from an accredited represent,
tiveof the Hawaiian Kingdom. Another great advan.
tage which the Western man has is represented to the
department In mors favorable .and tscluslv lrms, ej
1 fi ""'"'ge f hit wares, which he has got from die
railroad companies, wliose Iu,m reach from the Pacific
shore eauwarilly. Ily favorable term, of errlg, ex.
cluslvely )il, he shuts others from tomliilon wild liim
over the country west of the Missouri Kiver, snd whn
lw meets other dealers east of lh Missouri, h is abb-,
10 aotiM Client, lo underbid them also. I do not per.
celve how evasions of the treaty, at ihey haw practical
oprallons among dealers In sugar, contribute lothis re
suit, rhe department Is not aware of any complaint of
the o-ieralion of the trealy on the business of tills coun
try, and it appears that the principal thing complained
oris the Successful rivalry of the Western dealer. 1 do
!" "f . ''' 0'"s Is, In any great mcesure, the ef.
fed of the treaty, 'therefore, I am not prepared to say
that it would bero-fltlally effect the business Interests of
this country to abrogate it.
Very Uespwtfully, '
ClMH.r.1 J, roll, Secretary,
TREATY CUI'l'INGS.
NkwYork, January p. The tl'orlJ, in a
column editorial on the Hawaiian Treaty, con
cludes as follows: The .Sandwich Islands treaty
injures no one, bul benefits everyone on the
eastern slope of the Kocky Mountains, and as
It admits certain sugar free of duly lo the
Pacific Coast, it ought to benefit consumers
on the western slojw. That which robs the
the Pacific Coast of the full benefit of free
sugars is ihe thing for Californians to ileal with,
without pestering the trcaty.tnaking power in
Washington. All this "fuss" over sugar and
Sprcckcls really means at the bottom a combi
nation to aid the Hritish Government and Sir
Charles Dilke to impale, anil, if possible,
thwart Ihe negotiations now committed to ex
President Grant of a reciprocal commercial alli
ance with Mexico, which is a country capable
of producing an indefinite supply of sugar.
If Ihisncgoliation is successful, the principal
of unhindered trade will in the end sweep us
into alliance with not only all the States of
Central America, but Cuba and Porto Itfco
also.
Xkw York, January 5th. The U'erlJ'i
editorial savs: In the matter of the Sand
wich Islands treaty, it would obviously he
very inconvenient, as well as very silly, for
the House to advise the abrogation of a
treaty which the President is convinced
should not be abrogated. Congress has
neither the power nor the right to compel the
President to abrogate a treaty. ' As the Sand
wich Islands treaty relates to .revenue, the
House lias a right respectfully lo invite Ihe
President to give the House his views, and
even those views, if President Arthur has any
views on the subject, he may in certain circum
stances refuse to give to the House, The
Sandwich Islands trealy is a reciprocity treaty,
tinder which, in consideration of the admission
into those islands of. a large list of American
products free of duty, the United States
promises to admit Sandwich Islands sugar free
of duty into our jxM. If any average Repub
lican Member of Congress, not licing interested
in the sugar lobby, will consult any good
atlas and see how plainly thirteen islands of
the Kingdom of Hawaii lie in the track of
Hritish commerce between (he Islands of
Central America and China, and will then
consider what is now going on in Downing
street in London about those islands, perhaps
he will perceive that there is .something in our
diplomatic relations with the King of the
Hawaiian Islands quite as important as the
sugar lobby. The imports into tluise islands
now amount to more than $5,000,000 a year.
Washington, Jan. 12. The Foreign Affairs
Committee met to-day to consider the question
of recommending the abrogation of the
Hawaiian treaty. Sometime since the com
mittee invited the Secretary of State and the
Secretary of the Treasury to give their views in
writing on the subject, and a letter from Secre
tary I' relinghu) sen was received by Chairman
Williams the day before yesterday. Secretary
Folgcr's letter is now being revised at the
Treasury Department, and the committee
therefore postponed action until the 1 6th at
which time Mr. Folger's opinions will belaid
before them. The subject of the abrogation of
the treaty was discussed in Cabinet last week,
and it is inferred that as regards the main
proposition the Secretary of State and Secretary
of the Treasury are agreed. The committee
this morning decided to treat Secretary I'rc
linghuyscn's letter as hn executive paper,
and not make its contents nublic. lie is
opposed to the abrogation of the treaty for
political reasons. In his letter he calls at
tention to the advantages that it gives us. He
lays stress upon the clause of the treaty that
binds the Hawaiian govetnm:nt so long as the
treaty is in force not to lease or otherwise di-
fse or create any liens upon any of its ports,
latbars or o;hcr territory, or to grant any
special privilegeor right louse said pors
harbors or terrrilory to any other power or
government, or make any treaty whereby any
other pow er miy acquire the same privileges
as the United .States. The Secretary ofState,
however, suggests a modification of the treaty.
Among the articles which it stipulates shall be
admitted free of duty into the United States is
muscovado, brown and all other unrefined
sugar, meaning thereby grades heretofore com
monly imported from Ihe Hawaiian IiIAmli,
and now known in the markets of San Fran
cisco and Portland as Sandwich Islands sfvgaf. .
The said sugars are artificially colored, but
having a very high per cent of saccharine
strength are brought in under the clause' of the
treaty. The Secretary of Slnfe rccimends
that tests be applied to the sugars bronchi from
the Sandwich Islands, and that a duty be leviol
on al grades according to its strength, so as to
only admit free those classes known, when the
treaty was made, In the San Francisco market
as Sandwich Island sugar.
TKIAI. Ot- IIANA FOIl MURDEK.
(Continued from Jan. 90th.
The parent! of Jlana lestifivl that liana,
while her husband was suffering, went thiwtl
to Ihe stream to wash clothes, and remained at
the work untifVter his death; that she lad
always lived on tlae best of terms with her de
ceased husband.
A native jmliccman testified that he carne to
the house of deceased shortly Iwforchis death;
that he asked Kamaile what was the cause of
his sickness, and was told in reply, that he
was suffering on account of his sins. Witness
denied having asked Kamaile "if he had eaten
any thing," as stated by the two previous
witnesses. He also said that deceased and
. liana had not lately been living on good terms,
and that deceased liad complained to him of
his wife's conduct, suspecting her of infidelity,
and requesting him to interfere , that a short
time before Kamaile's death, he had entered
and searched the house of a Chinaman upon
suspicion that liana was therewith (he son-in-law
of the Chinaman; but that the search was
futile; that a few days after, he himself was
arrested upon information of the Chinaman, for
atort in exceeding his duty; that his trial for
the ofience charged was to have take place
the day after the death of Kamaile, who was
his only witness ; bul that the subsequent arrest
of the Chinaman ami his son-in-law on suspicion
of complicity iii the murder, of Kamaile had
dcla)cd the hearing; that after 'their release
he had been tried and fined $25.
Mr. Kussell, in addressing the jury, dwelt
at some length upon the evidence produced to
show the affectionate regard that liana-had
always evinced, as shown by the evidence,
tow ards her deceased husband ; ujxin the fact,
as stated, that. Kamaile had been ailing for
some time past, and that for a long criod
he had been subject to paroxysms of disease
not dissimilar from that immediately preceding
his death. He also argued that there was no
thing in the evidence connecting 1 lana w ilh the
crime, supposing Kamaile to .have, been mur
dered; and that the prosecution, having utterly
failed to trace any poison to her possession,
the jury should acquit the prisoner,
Mr. Preston, for the prosecution, said he
did not think that a. fond and guiltless wife, as
liana had been held up to be by her counsel,
would leave the side of a husband, suffering the
the agonies of dissolution, to go and wash
clothes. He said the vilest of criminals doubt
less had sometimes pangs of remorse, and that
her conduct upon the occasion could only be
explained upon the supposition that her con
science began lo prick her, and that she could
not stay to w itneas the suffering she had caused.
He said it was not the habit of assassins lo do
their work in the presence of witnesses, and
it was nothing strange that liana should have
done her work in the absence of such ; that if
occular proof oftheactofthe poisoner w ere ne
cessary foraconviction, poisoning would become
a mode of assassination of more common resort.
1 1 e wished the jury lo bear in mind all the cir
cumstances connected with the case; the indis
putable evidence of poUonin,; ; the fact of the
woman's trouble w ith her husband ; the charac
teristic rapid effects of tbe poison used which
xsinted a the fact of its adtniaUlfatio.i after
deceased ami liana had left the house of her
uruits; ihe fact thai the deceased, was blind
and could not have got the poisoa liimclf ;
that the parties had been alone sines their de
parture from the house of I lana's parcnls ; and
that a dog and cat had died about the same
lime as Kamaile.